Re: [PATCH 4/4] Checkpatch: warn about unexpectedly long msleep's

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Jul 28 2010 - 16:25:38 EST


On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:33:07 -0700
Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> As explained in Documentation/timers/delays.txt, msleep's
> of < 20ms may sleep for as long as 20ms. Caller's of
> msleep(1) or msleep(2), etc are likely not to expect this
> quirky behavior - warn them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 892ae62..0ca2ea5 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2578,6 +2578,13 @@ sub process {
> }
> }
>
> +# warn about unexpectedly long msleep's
> + if ($line =~ /\bmsleep\s*\((\d+)\);/) {
> + if ($1 < 20) {
> + WARN("msleep < 20ms can sleep for up to 20ms; see Documentation/timers/delays.txt\n" . $line);

Should be timers-howto.txt?


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